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Facebook Tracks Non-Users

There are likely more than a few people out there who have stopped using Facebook, or never used it in the first place, because they were not comfortable with allowing such an organization to track and control massive amounts of information relating to their daily lives. Beware, Facebook also tracks non-users as well. From First Post:

In a series of interviews with USAToday, Facebook has finally
revealed how it tracks users and non-users across the web, gathering
huge amount of data as it does so. Says ABCNews/USAToday:

Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the
social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web
pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the
previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more
non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a
Facebook web page for any reason.

Allegations from Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook was creating “shadow profiles” of non-users were initially refuted by Facebook’s spokesman Andrew Noyes, who said categorically that “The allegations are false.”